| In a masterstroke of casting, He plays Vanya as a bored and disappointed man who entertains himself by playing the Glasgow wind-up merchant. |
| In 1996, he directed August, an adaptation of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya set in Wales. |
| But the unexpectedly wonderful Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike is a hilariously funny audience-grabber. |
| If there's one great insight that he brings in this transposition of Uncle Vanya to 1960s north-east Scotland, it's that it's a very funny play. |
| Vanya is too scared to jump, and stays up there, cold and shaking until his mother comes to rescue him, whereupon he weeps piteously. |
